A few readers have voiced concerns that the majority of posts here at Hoboken Group are incomprehensible. To prove that our blog should be accessible to most of our readership, I submitted the site to a (respectably scientific, I'm sure) online readability test. Its certification:
EDIT: John has noted that the our blog's readability rating seems to be endogenous to... itself. Or, the rating is reactive to our acknowledgment and publicization of it. That is, my posting of Hoboken Group's readability seems to have bumped us up one level of comprehensibility. Therefore:
11 November 2007
Comprehension
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EV gets a "college (postgrad)" rating. I guess your four collective BAs didn't really pay off. sorry! better luck with your next degrees.
Maybe it's rated at such a high level of difficulty because people can't understand sentences that don't begin with a capital letter.
Uh, so out of curiosity I clicked on the link going to that site and typed in a few blogs, including our very own Hoboken Group (I wasn't doubting you, just meaninglessly procrastinating), and got "college (postgrad)". So your post about our degree level bumped us up one degree level. This just adds to my trust in its obviously scientific rigour.
john, I think it was probably the mention of EV in the comments section that boosted the rating. greatness by association, I guess.
my blog is currently rated "genius." clearly readability is measured by counting the number of references to library software and rare book digitization projects.
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